Mr Wechlin said that besides pure convenience, the system also significantly increases the time the bus can remain in operation as it does not need to go to the depot every few hours for recharging and there is no need to swap batteries.
Metro-North and state officials are still planning to repeat on Tuesday the bus and shuttle-train operation they used Monday morning to help move 30, 000 displaced commuters through southwestern Connecticut.
As athletes continue to arrive in London, Coe said he was satisfied with the early stages of the Olympic operation, despite American hurdler Kerron Clement complaining that his bus got lost on the way to the Olympic village.
The Hydrogen Bus - The world's first Tribrid minibus developed by Glamorgan University which has been in operation for four months ferrying students between its Treforest and Glyn Taf campuses.